Why do rednecks say "acrost"?

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Posted: 10/4/2005 11:57:29 AM EDT

It seems whenever I am around the kind of people who watch Nascar, they always pronounce the word "across" with a heavy "T" sound at the end?

What is the reason for this?

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:58:19 AM EDT

[#1]

Because it annoys yankees.

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:58:42 AM EDT

[#2]

Why you axing that?

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:59:24 AM EDT

[#3]

prolly fer the same reason you carpet bagging yankee motherfuckers say "pahk the cah"...

hahahahaha

just a regional dialect.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:00:38 PM EDT

[#4]

Interestingly enough, the first and only time I've heard that was out of the mouth of a guy from Maine.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:01:54 PM EDT

[#5]

Probably for the same reason they say "dreckly". As in "directly". As in "You go on insert direction and/or location, I'll be along dreckly".

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:01:55 PM EDT

[#6]

That’s nothing. I’ve heard engineers and landscape architects saying “heighth”.

I tease them asking if they mean diagonal...like a cross between height and width.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:02:10 PM EDT

[#7]

The same reason we say "fixin'". "I'm fixin' to go to the store" or when somebody asked us to do something and we reply " I'm fixin' ta" . That's the way we talk.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:02:59 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Probably for the same reason they say "dreckly". As in "directly". As in "You go on insert direction and/or location, I'll be along dreckly".

..blaoljafk;l'
cg

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:03:00 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Because it annoys yankees.

x2.

Same reason we say "fahr", instead of fire. Ya'll got a problem? Git on outta here.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:04:04 PM EDT

[#10]

They ain't saying acrost their saying aww Christ another dam yankee..

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:04:09 PM EDT

[#11]

Eh?

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:04:19 PM EDT

[#12]

Because by the time you figger out what we just said, we done busted you acrost the face.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:04:57 PM EDT

[#13]

When your mouth is crammed full with pecan waffles, and there's nary a can of Busch Light to be had - how in the fuck else are you supposed to say "across"?

Goddamn the cultural insensitivity of this place sometimes!

PATIENCE! Just give them some time - they'll get better!

If I make it another week without getting banned it'll be a miracle!

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:05:48 PM EDT

[#14]

They are spitting the chew juice out when they say it.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:07:45 PM EDT

[#15]

"Aorta"

Aorta cut the grass so the kids can play in the field.

"Mayonaise"

Mayonaise alotta' people up in here tonight!

"Initiate"

My mom ate two hamburgers... initiate a bag of chips.

"European"

Hey dude turn the other way european on my boots!

"Widga-dija"

You didn't bring yer truck widga-dija?

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:07:47 PM EDT

[#16]

I say "heighth" all of the time and I am not a redneck by
any stretch of the immagination. It did take my move to
to the northeast for me to lose a couple of Ohioisms,
such as "warsh" (wash) and "tin" (ten).

It does annoy me to no end when people say "bolth"
(both)...

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:09:33 PM EDT

[#17]

How about "I seen over there in the corner."? Or, "He come up the road..."? Or, "She done went to town."? Really nice Clark.

Blake

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:10:01 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
They are spitting the chew juice out when they say it.bestsmileys.com/rude/10.gif

It's chaw son, chaw. Not chew. That's what you do with food.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:10:43 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Because by the time you figger out what we just said, we done busted you acrost the face.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:12:22 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
When you're mouth is crammed full with pecan waffles, and there's nary a can of Busch Light to be had - how in the fuck else are you supposed to say "across"?

Goddamn the cultural insensitivity of this place sometimes!

If I make it another week with out getting banned I'll be amazed!

Don’t confuse self-important with relevance.

You won't get banned... people don't pay you that much attention.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:13:35 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
prolly fer the same reason you carpet bagging yankee motherfuckers say "pahk the cah"...hahahahaha

just a regional dialect.

Damn thats funny!

Why don't we go sit on the davenport?

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:14:23 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
"Aorta"

Aorta cut the grass so the kids can play in the field.

"Mayonaise"

Mayonaise alotta' people up in here tonight!

"Initiate"

My mom ate two hamburgers... initiate a bag of chips.

"European"

Hey dude turn the other way european on my boots!

"Widga-dija"

You didn't bring yer truck widga-dija?

safari

"Hey how that new quarterback doing"
"Not too good, safari done threw 2 innerceptions"

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:14:49 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Don’t confuse self-important with relevance.

You won't get banned... people don't pay you that much attention.

Once again in english please?

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:16:44 PM EDT

[#24]

Why do Yankees call soda or coke "POP"?

It does not go pop when opened, It goes whooosh, fizzle.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:17:46 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Why do Yankees call soda or coke "POP"?

It does not go pop when opened, It goes whooosh, fizzle.

It is a ghey thing.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:18:17 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
That’s nothing. I’ve heard engineers and landscape architects saying “heighth”.

I tease them asking if they mean diagonal...like a cross between height and width.

perhaps they meant highth

I love when people get high and mighty about a language which is evolving and changing as we speak.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:22:58 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Quoted:
That’s nothing. I’ve heard engineers and landscape architects saying “heighth”.

I tease them asking if they mean diagonal...like a cross between height and width.

perhaps they meant highth

I love when people get high and mighty about a language which is evolving and changing as we speak.

It also amuses me when people expect other people to understand their point even while they insist on mangling words or twisting definitions.
"Oh you know what I mean!"
"Uh, actually, I don't have any idea what you're talking about."

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:24:41 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Quoted:
That’s nothing. I’ve heard engineers and landscape architects saying “heighth”.

I tease them asking if they mean diagonal...like a cross between height and width.

perhaps they meant highth

I love when people get high and mighty about a language which is evolving and changing as we speak.

Even Homer Simpsons "Doh!" is in some dictionaries.
Slang and mispronunciation are not proper English. They're a sign of poor education. That's part of why you'll never hear a national newscaster talk like that. Not that they are necessarily the most intelligent people but they have to speak proper English.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:30:52 PM EDT

[#29]

Same reason we say: You say:

I recon I guess so

Pert near damn near, almost

ya'll you guys or you'se guys

gots got

say what? excuse me sir, pardon me

yonder over there, back home

hundrit hundred

Ya'll folks from Minesoooota and Wisconsin are even worse. WTF is up with Wisconson, you go to a restarant and they ain't gots no sweet tea? WTH, Milk? Why in the hell would I want milk with dinner?

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:33:06 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Even Homer Simpsons "Doh!" is in some dictionaries.
Slang and mispronunciation are not proper English. They're a sign of poor education. That's part of why you'll never hear a national newscaster talk like that. Not that they are necessarily the most intelligent people but they have to speak proper English.

Aww hell, whadda you know 'bout "proper english", you're Canadian!!

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:35:04 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Quoted:

Even Homer Simpsons "Doh!" is in some dictionaries.
Slang and mispronunciation are not proper English. They're a sign of poor education. That's part of why you'll never hear a national newscaster talk like that. Not that they are necessarily the most intelligent people but they have to speak proper English.

Aww hell, whadda you know 'bout "proper english", you're Canadian!!

Maybe I'm being ethnocentric with our higher literacy rate and all. Everyone is so damn insensitive around here lately, even me.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:36:02 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Ya'll folks from Minesoooota and Wisconsin are even worse. WTF is up with Wisconson, you go to a restarant and they ain't gots no sweet tea? WTH, Milk? Why in the hell would I want milk with dinner?

I hate to travel more than 300 miles away from sweet tea and cornbread 'cuz i never know when i mite get a hankerin'.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:44:49 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
That’s nothing. I’ve heard engineers and landscape architects saying “heighth”.

I tease them asking if they mean diagonal...like a cross between height and width.

Just ask them to say weight, then ask why don't you say weighth.

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:09:50 PM EDT

[#34]

Smatter chew, boy?
yaint from round here?
Nope, yarnt.

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:11:25 PM EDT

[#35]

Why do you ax?

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:15:24 PM EDT

[#36]

Now I be knowing how dem black folks feel! God tall mighty yes I does!

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:22:47 PM EDT

[#37]

For the same reasons townies from Philly say, "youse".

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:24:32 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Probably for the same reason they say "dreckly". As in "directly". As in "You go on insert direction and/or location, I'll be along dreckly".

..blaoljafk;l'
cg

+1! Why the hell do people say "prolly?"

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:26:40 PM EDT

[#39]

Walmart= Walmarts (as in plural Walmart) "I'm goan ta Walmarts"

Batteries=Battries (syllable removed) "I'm goan ta Walmarts to get battries"

going=goan' (butchered English) see above

must have=musta' (not too much of a stretch)

An earlier poster mentioned improper tenses used in a sentence...a sign of ignorance. I honestly can't figure out why my fellow Tennesseans resort to bad grammar.

With the exception of the noun "Walmart", southerners typically soften hard vowell sounds and shorten multi-syllabic words. I actually find the shortened, abreviated words kind of endearing. Just part of growing up here...

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:27:16 PM EDT

[#40]

Why do blacks say "acks" and latinos say "meng"?

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:34:52 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Why do blacks say "acks" and latinos say "meng"?

OMG. We couldn't ask them to speak proper English now could we...the white man trying to take away part of their heritage. OMG What is "proper" English? White english? Who makes proper english "proper"?

The above are just a few of the comments I can remember hearing in Linguistics Class during my undergrad. work. for the life of me I can't figure out how I wasn't killed walking to my car after class (by angry mobs of classmates who remain verbally challenged).

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:35:05 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Walmart= Walmarts (as in plural Walmart) "I'm goan ta Walmarts"

Batteries=Battries (syllable removed) "I'm goan ta Walmarts to get battries"

going=goan' (butchered English) see above

must have=musta' (not too much of a stretch)

An earlier poster mentioned improper tenses used in a sentence...a sign of ignorance. I honestly can't figure out why my fellow Tennesseans resort to bad grammar.

With the exception of the noun "Walmart", southerners typically soften hard vowell sounds and shorten multi-syllabic words. I actually find the shortened, abreviated words kind of endearing. Just part of growing up here...

It has far less to do with ignorance or education and more to do with regional differences and history.

The earlier poster is wrong on the bad grammar ignorance stuff… go to Harvard and see for yourself.

I for one don’t see the advantage or pleasure in seeing everybody in the country sound like some white bread clone of Ohio. Makes me sick to think about it, thank God for the difference.

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:36:06 PM EDT

[#43]

Sincuwus=Sincuwus up, get me a (Root) beer!

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:36:07 PM EDT

[#44]

Do these NASCAR folks also have Ruger license plates on their trucks?

Posted: 10/4/2005 1:38:03 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Why do blacks say "acks" and latinos say "meng"?

OMG. We couldn't ask them to speak proper English now could we...the white man trying to take away part of their heritage. OMG What is "proper" English? White english? Who makes proper english "proper"?

The above are just a few of the comments I can remember hearing in Linguistics Class during my undergrad. work. for the life of me I can't figure out how I wasn't killed walking to my car after class (by angry mobs of classmates who remain verbally challenged).

For a second I thought you were attacking me and was like "are you SERIOUS?!" then I kept reading. It's an uphill battle in colleges, that's for sure. Keep at it.

I still get pissed off at any person saying "of-TEN" or often and "Illinoise" or Illinois (and I'm from MA!)